Re: Does or Does Not Google

On Jun 23, 9:41 am, Rumpelstiltskin
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:22:59 -0700 (PDT), freeisbest



<demeter547op...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 20, 5:56 pm, "Imno1" <wh...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
carry soc.retirement  and/or senior issues one of its groups&. Like many
others I've been notified that At&T would no longer provide access to usenet
servers. I'm not ready to pay a commercial outfit no matter how little to
look at the few usenet groups I surf, Which brings me back to my
question -is there a way short of paying to continue accessing all/most , or
chosen usenet groups?

   'Re: Does or Does Not Google carry soc.retirement  and/or senior
issues one of its groups. '  Yes.   I post to soc.ret from Google
Groups because I'm just as frugal as you are, and good for you.
Google is very easy to use and read, tho annoying to use in some
ways.  If you need to have a kill-file available, you may not like it,
but it is possible to simply  ignore posts from the group's
malcontents, while keeping an eye out for posts from people you do
like to read.

   I use a pretty extensive kill-file, in addition to not
even downloading anything that's crossposted.
Of the remaining not-crossposted posts,  only about
a third of them survive my individual filters, and
that's the way I like it.  The rest get marked "read"
but are still visible if I want to backtrack from a
post I did read to see what was going on, which
isn't often necessary.  I figure I already waste
enough time participating in this group when I
could be wasting time doing the equally frivolous
other things that I do in my dotage.
                               =8-(

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Yes, the cross-posting thing is an annoyance with GooGroups. Now
and then I check on the group itself and discover that there were "133
replies to your posts in the last 7 days", not from soc.ret but
because my post has been crossposted without my noticing (again) that
the list in the "Newsgroups" window at the top of the "reply to post"
form. I imagine folks in the other groups get used to my occasional
post but zero responses. As you say, there are so many rewarding ways
to waste time that we dare not become obsessive about one.
I do miss the kill-file facility.
.

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